Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

The Conservatives didn't want to publlish a document with the aim of dramatically shaking up this campaign because shaking it up could have made it go wrong. This has been overtly designed not to scare the horses, because, as one senior figure said to me, we all live in fear of what happened last time.

The Tories also want to fix the messge on Brexit. On the central point - vote for us, get Brexit done.

But one of the big problems is that central promise has a second part to it. Of course, if we leave the EU in January, the first bit - the question mark over whether Brexit will actually happen - is removed.

But there is an enormous challenge in the second part of it - and a great deal if scpeticism - over whether Mr Johnson can really reach a trade deal with the EU before the end of 2020. He has given a cast-iron guarantee in his manifesto that he will.

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Just popping back to Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan again and what she had to say on Brexit.

She insists a Conservative government would be able to strike a comprehensive trade deal with the EU between January and December next year.

The UK is currently due to leave the EU on 31 January 2020.

After that date, a transition period is set to begin, during which the UK will continue to follow EU rules while the two sides try to work out a permanent trade deal.

The deadline for that phase is 31 December 2020.

Asked whether a complex deal with the EU is possible in that period, Ms Morgan says there is "an awful lot of thinking and discusisons already going on" about trade.

She continued: "The trade experts that I talk to say it absolutely is eminently possible... But obviously we have to get on with this.

"Getting that trade agreement to a stage where it can be put to Parliament is absolutely possible.

"We've got a fantastic civil service who have worked incredibly hard already... to make sure we're ready for that phase."

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As the deadline to register to vote in the general election fast approaches, we've been looking at how much difference where people live makes to how likely they are to vote.

Paul Swinney, director of policy and research at the Centre for Cities, has found that city dwellers tend to vote differently to the rest of the country - and this divide is deepening.

The constituencies with the highest and lowest turnouts in 2017 were both in cities.

London's Twickenham topped the list, with 80% of voters going to the polls. At the other end was Glasgow North East, where just 53% voted. Across the UK, average turnout was 69%.

Read more from Paul here.

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Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan is now on the Today programme, where she's pushed on why the "clear plan" to "fix social care once and for all" promised by Boris Johnson when he entered office has not appeared in his manifesto.

Ms Morgan insists the government does have a "very clear three-point plan" for improving funding for social care.

The Conservative manifesto pledges an extra £1bn per year for social care in England over the next five years, along with a commitment to strive for cross-party consensus on the issue and to make sure no-one has to sell their home to pay for care.

But it's put to her that Mr Johnson suggested he had something far more comprehensive worked out as he stood on the steps of No 10.

Ms Morgan replies: "There has been work going on but it's not at a stage yet in order to be launched."

She says the previous Conservative government was working on a plan to overhaul social care but it was a "complex longterm issue" with "lots of moving parts".

"People know [social care has] got to be resolved and worked on in a long term and sustainable way... this is a Conservative manifesto so it's unlikely to set out that cross-party consensus."

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There are now less than 48 hours to register to vote in the election so if you haven't yet, and want to do so, you can use this link here, external to do it online.

The deadline is 23:59 GMT tomorrow.

Don't know if you're registered already? We have the answer to that question, and many others, here.

Jessica Parker
BBC political correspondent

Labour’s announcement today on helping private renters is not entirely new - a lot of it we’ve heard before - for example, the idea of capping increases in private rents to inflation.

What is new is the idea of an annual property MOT, with punishments for landlords if their properties are found to be sub-standard.

It's part of Labour's aim to set the narrative that they will help hard-pressed, private renters.

Something else that has emerged from Labour over the weekend is the idea of compensating Waspi women - those women who lost out on state pensions after the qualifying age was raised.

The reason, they say, that they didn’t announce it in their manifesto is because they wanted to give the priority it deserves.

But is it a priority for the Conservatives? As we heard from Nicky Morgan earlier, that’s not quite the case.

We've had most of the manifestos now - the full list of official pledges parties make to voters, explaining what they would do if elected.

We've been pulling together those promises into one place - our policy guide - to help you compare where the parties currently stand on the key issues.

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One of the most eye-catching policies announced by the Conservatives was that pledge - mentioned by Nicky Morgan - to increase the number of nurses in the NHS England workforce by 50,000 by 2024-5.

But are these new nurses?

Well, our health editor Hugh Pym explains: "It is not right to say that the Conservatives plan to recruit 50,000 more nurses or find 50,000 new nurses."

The Tories' aim is to train 14,000 new graduates and undergraduates by increasing the number of university training places.

And it's hoped that an expanded nurse apprenticeship schemes will bring in another 5,000.

A further 12,500 nurses will be recruited from abroad, through a new NHS visa.

Finally, it is hoped that 18,500 nurses will be encouraged to stay in the profession, or return to work, through improved career development opportunities and an enhanced retention programme.

So, our correspondent says: "It is correct to say that the party wants to add 50,000 more nurses to the existing workforce total of around 300,000."

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Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan was also asked about the key new health policy in the Conservative manifesto which is to add 50,000 more nurses to the workforce in England by 2023.

She stressed that it was “50,000 more nurses”, rather than new, and she says achieving the figure will partly be achieved by having better retention of nurses.

She also defended the announcement that the Conservatives will bring back maintenance grants for nurses - the scrapping of grants in 2017 was followed by a fall in the number of applicants for nursing degrees.

However, the policy will not involve a return to the pre-2017 policy of free tuition for nursing students.

She says: “I know as a minister that you make a decision and you see what happens and then you have to rework that, or to do something a bit different, to deal with that issue."

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Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan - who is leaving Parliament at this election - is first up for the Conservatives on the morning round of interviews.

Following the launch of the Tory manifesto, she defends its focus on Brexit, saying it’s the biggest issue and the UK needs to get it resolved “before we move on to talk about all these other priority issues”.

She says the manifesto is “a very optimistic document” and it outlines how the Tories are also looking to the future by investing in science, research and education.

She is also asked about the plight of the Waspi women, and she says it’s “a very difficult situation”, but adds that it’s “very expensive to resolve”.

There isn’t the money “to do as the women have asked”, she says, and adding that women have also benefited over the last five years to changes to the state pension.

If you missed the full coverage of the Tory manifesto launch on Sunday, check out our video which squeezes all you need to know into (roughly) two minutes.

Boris Johnson was challenged by one of the so-called Waspi women during Friday's BBC Question Time leaders' special.

The prime minister told the questioner: "I do sympathise deeply with the Waspi women... but it is very expensive to come up with the solution you want."

"I cannot promise I can magic up that money for you," he added.

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Labour's John Healey was asked about that £58bn pledge to the Waspi women when he spoke to BBC Breakfast a short time ago.

He said it was a “special case” and required “one -off compensation payment”.

“Government always has a contingency fund to deal with this sort of compensation - things that can’t necessarily be foreseen and this rights a historic injustice.”

Asked why the pledge wasn’t included in the party’s manifesto, he said: “We wanted to give it the sort of priority it deserves.”

Labour waited until a few days after the manifesto was published to make the announcement.

In total around 2.6 million women , externalwere affected by the 2011 changes. While some of them had time to adapt to a longer working life, for others the change came as a shock.

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Labour's big promise yesterday was compensation for Waspi women - those who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised.

The director of think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, has this morning criticised the plan, saying the policy's estimated cost of £58bn is "a very, very large sum of money indeed".

He added: "I think there are two interesting things about that - one is the sheer scale of it, and of course it immediately breaks the promises they made in their manifesto just last week only to borrow to invest.

"So, they would need even more than their £80bn tax rises if they wanted to cover that.

"The other, I suppose, is just a statement of priorities or decisive lack of priorities, because there's so much money for so many things, but they're not finding money, for example, to reverse the welfare cuts for genuinely poor people of working age."

Mr Johnson says that while some of the Waspi women have suffered real hardship as a result, "many of them are actually quite well off."

Read more about the Waspi women's campaign here.

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Economist Sir Andrew Dilnot led a review into paying for long-term care in England, published in 2011. He’s asked about the Conservative plans on the issue.

He says “they’re really not very specific”, and that’s striking because Boris Johnson stood on the steps of Downing Street four months or so ago and said would "fix the crisis in social care once and for all".

Instead, Sir Andrew tells Today, the manifesto contains a "very vague" promise to seek a cross-party consensus on the way foward.

He says he believes a consensus is "just about there" among the political parties - especially around the need for a cap on the maximum an individual could have to pay.

"We just need to get on and do it and I’m puzzled as to why we’re not.

"The main difficulty here is that politicians, for reasons I don't fully understand, have found it hard to get something across the line here.

"Let's hope that there is enough energy around this now…" he adds, but it requires significant "political will".

Labour’s John Healey says the government has allowed “rogue landlords to flourish” for too long in the private sector and it’s time to act to make the market fairer for renters.

He says Labour’s “charter of rights” - as they’re calling it - aims to change the market so that “private renting is a decent option for everyone”.

Under Labour's charter, landlords would face an annual "property MOT", with fines of up to £100,000, or forced repayment of rent, if their properties are found to be sub-standard.

He denies Labour are overcomplicating the market by introducing new rules, arguing: “This is about making all properties and all landlords operate to the sort of standards that all better ones do.”

Mr Healey says these standards are commonplace in other countries and there’s no reason why they can’t be introduced in the UK.

Read more on this story.

Many of Monday's papers give their verdicts on the newly-launched Conservative manifesto.

The Times and the Daily Express say Boris Johnson has put the NHS "at the heart" of his election campaign, with the promise of 50,000 more nurses.

The Sun calls it a "jumbo manifesto package of spending promises" which are aimed at ordinary working families.

In contrast the i describes it as a "safety-first" election blueprint and the Financial Times agrees - saying the prospectus includes a series of policies "intended to reinforce his double-digit poll lead".

The Daily Telegraph says the prime minister "made it clear" he would not enter a spending competition with Jeremy Corbyn.

The Guardian agrees the "battle lines" over public spending have been drawn.

The Daily Mirror doesn't believe the Conservative pledges. It has a picture of a tombstone with the words: "Here lies the Tory manifesto... and lies and lies".

Read more from the papers.

It is - dare we say it - a fairly steady start to the new week, but here are the top lines for you:

• Labour are talking about their plans to help private renters in England by bringing in rent controls in England. The party also says it would bring in "open-ended" tenancies and require landlords to conduct an annual property "MOT". Here's our story on what they're planning.
• Reaction to the Conservative manifesto continues as Boris Johnson heads to Wales to launch his party's Welsh manifesto
• The Lib Dems are focusing on foreign affairs. The party says it is committed to spending extra money on defence and aid.
• And this evening will be the first of Andrew Neil's interviews with the party leaders in the run-up to the election. First up is the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon.

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Welcome to our live coverage as another week of general election campaigning gets under way, with just two and half weeks to go until the big day.

The big event over the weekend was the launch of the Conservative manifesto.

In case you missed the details - here is some analysis from our correspondents on the Tories' 13 main policies. We'll bring you more reaction throughout the day.